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"And Stott clearly takes a step and then re-tags the bat before throwing the first. His foot, I don't think when he initially caught it, I'm not sure his foot was all the way on the back. But he takes a pause, steps on the bag, De La Cruz has already passed it, and then throws the first and still in plenty of time to get Stewart. If they uphold this, the only thing Bryson could have done then would be to just hold the ball and go tag him. Right. What they're saying is that he's okay to do that. Well, either way, he could have done that, but he just isn't going to be able to get the runner at first, which you would get one runner either way on just the physicality of the play. But I'm with you on the abandonment of the bag at second base, and maybe Alfonso Marquez will give us some direction. Philadelphia's challenging the safe ball at second base. So now the umpires in New York will have a look. If you don't round the base, when you round a base, you establish a baseline. If you don't round it at all, I thought you abandoned the base. Because the only base you can run through is first base. Yeah, he made no effort to go to third, so there's no established baseline to third. He actually is peeling out towards center field. And, you know, not to mention the fact that he doesn't slide, maybe he's interfered with Bryson Stodd in terms of the double play rule. I mean, he's six, seven going straight in at Stodd, and it'll be really interesting to see how this gets resolved. Dusty Wathen, the bench coach for the Phillies, is one of the best you'll ever meet at knowing every rule in the book at every moment. That's exactly right. And there's somebody that is dedicated to that. I've seen this play many times the last couple of years actually work in the sense of... Isn't this like the PCA getting caught stealing the other day, a little bit like that, when he slid past? Do you remember the play? There was a slide, yes, because he actively slid to try to get to the back, like to stay on the back within the vicinity. But he was called out because technically he'd gone by the... He did, but he came off the back. There wasn't an abandonment issue."
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